Asylum: Housing
Commons · Question 24505 · Tabled 16 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by David Simmonds
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2024 to Question 18555 on Asylum: Hotels, in what type of tenure and accommodation will the asylum seekers now be housed; how the accommodation will be procured;
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 22 Jan 2025
This government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...